Insecta - Blattodea - Termitidae
Synonym: Nasutitermes pilosus Krishna and Grimaldi 2009 [replaced name]
Full reference: K. Krishna and D. A. Grimaldi. 2013. Taxonomic names, in Treatise on the Isoptera of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 377:1681-1682
Belongs to Nasutitermes according to K. Krishna and D. A. Grimaldi 2013
See also Krishna and Grimaldi 2009 and Krishna et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Nasutitermes amplioculatus, Nasutitermes electrinus, Nasutitermes electronasutus, Nasutitermes incisus, Nasutitermes magnocellus, Nasutitermes medioculatus, Nasutitermes rotundicephalus, Nasutitermes seminudus
Type specimens:
- Nasutitermes crinitus: AMNH DR 10-1627, an exoskeleton
- Nasutitermes pilosus: AMNH DR10-1627, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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